The lobby at JW Marriott. Ethan is constantly the one who keeps everyone smiling, whether they like it or not.
One of the waterfalls on the walkways through the hotel at JW. I have never seen grounds this beautiful with such attention to detail.
In Thailand most of the people drive mopeds, or scooters, there are more mopeds than automobiles. This photo was taken right outside a restaurant in Phuket Town.
Right outside our back door of our hotel room, Dylan stops for a pose.
The fresh leis that the JW Marriott put around our necks on arrival, they provided wonderful aroma in our room, and they look pretty too.
The grounds at the JW Marriott in Phuket are beautiful. The hotel is all outdoors and there are fountains and greenery every place. Here we are waiting for the elevator.
The bathroom is beautiful with a wonderful bath tub and a two headed shower. The whole room is beautiful. Our back terrace leads to the private beach, and it is the reason we chose this particular room. This is the life.
The boys have a little nook all their own. It has a wonderful view and their stuffed friends are happy too.
Right across from our hotel in Bangkok there is a McDonald's complete with a Play Place. So, that is (unfortunately) where we ate several meals. The McDonald's in Bahrain does not serve breakfast, so it was nice to be able to order breakfast burritos and hash browns for a change.
A donut shop in the mall at Bangkok. Their doughnuts are really different and have a funny shape. They are round, with a hole but are like small round spheres attached to make a circle instead of a bun with a hole in the middle.
Ronald McDonald outside the restaurant. He is in the pose used by the locals to greet one another. Hands in prayer position, bow the head and say, "Sawatdi Khap", (pronounced Swa Dee Kap for boys and Swa Dee Ka for girls), it means, "Hello, how are you."
This was eating at the KFC in Phuket town. I thought the menu was interesting, just to see the type of "alphabet" used in Thai. Many of the languages over here use different alphabets, like Chinese, Japenese, Hamaric, Arabic and Thai... just to name a few.
Some of the houses do not have any plumbing and you can see that they use the water from the canal to wash their clothes and dishes. It was really a sight to see. Quite different from anything that we are used to being from the states.
The long boat made a few stops. We stopped here at one of the largest temples and climbed the steps up the temple and toured the grounds. It was an amazingly steep temple. Each person had to take turns on the steps because the incline was so steep and the steps so narrow. I was very nervous, but we all made it up and back down. That is another notice from being away from the states, people in other countries do not seem to be as concerned with safety. I don't imagine there are as many lawsuits from people who get harmed from drinking their coffee too hot or anything like that here.
